Display package



E. H. BOHLMANN 1,958,231

DISPLAY PACKAGE Filed Feb. 19. 193?.

Patented May 8, 1934 barren STATES PATENT QFFEQE DISPLAY PACKAGE Application February 19, 1932, Serial No. 593,995

1 Claim.

This invention relates to display packages, and more particularly to a package containing cartons and provided with an opening through which porticns of one or more cartons are displayed to indictate the contents of the package.

One of the objects is to reduce the trouble and expense heretofore involved in the use of distinctively different containers for different brands of articles packed in cartons. For example, a jar ring manufacturer will make various brands of jar rings for numerous other concerns, each brand being packed in distinctive cartons which are usually printed in different colors to attractively display the trade-mark and advertising matter relating to that brand. Prior to this invention, it has been customary to pack two dozen cartons in a larger container, and to provide each container with distinctive printing showing the trade-mark and other matter corresponding to brands which appear on the enclosed cartons.

Therefore, in producing the old packages, it is necessary for the manufacturer to provide not only the distinctive cartons for the numerous brands of jar rings, but also a corresponding variety of larger distinctive containers displaying the brands or trade-marks, etc., which appear on the small cartons.

In actual practice, this ordinary use of distinctive containers involves a great deal of trouble and expense in providing the containers with different printed matter, and also in handling a large variety of different containers which must be specially prepared, stored in separate bins or the like, and thereafter selected when the cartons are to be placed in their corresponding containers.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate all of this trouble and expense, and at the same time produce a strong and attractive package wherein the trade-mark and other matter describing the contents are clearly displayed.

More specifically stated, the relatively large container is provided with a display opening through which a portion of an enclosed carton is exposed, and it will be important to observe the shape and location of this display opening, as well as the arrangement of the enclosed cartons.

The display opening is preferably circular, as this eliminates weak corners at which a tearing action would be readily started in the ordinary handling of the container. The circular opening is preferably formed in the center of the paper closure, as this eliminates undue weakness which would be present if the opening were formed near either edge of the paper closure.

Furthermore, the enclosed cartons are preferably so arranged that portions of two cartons are exposed at the display opening, and about onehalf of each exposed carton is securely confined by the material around this circular opening.

The foregoing combination and arrangement of elements, which will be hereafter more fully described, completely overcomes the aforesaid trouble and expense, and at the same time produces a strong, durable and attractive package that meets all of the essential requirements. This has been clearly demonstrated by actual commercial use of the invention on a large scale, wherein cartons of jar rings have been packed and displayed as herein set forth.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a jar ring package embodying the features of this invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the container.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the cartons.

Each of the cartons 4, shown in Figures 1 and 3, may be a small paper box adapted to contain one dozen jar rings.

The container 5 is large enough to contain twenty-four of the cartons 4, and these cartons are packed in the large container as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

The container 5 is preferably made of a single sheet of paper including a closure 6 hinged at '7 to the body of the container. The hinge 7 is formed by a fold line at one edge of the closure, and the opposite edge thereof may be provided with a flap 8 to be inserted into the body of the container. Closure-wings 9 are formed at the ends of the container, as shown in Fig. 2.

A circular display opening 10 is preferably formed at the center of the closure 6. This location of the display opening is important, as a large opening near an edge of the paper closure would result in a relatively weak structure more likely to be torn in assembling the package and also in handling the same after the cartons are confined therein.

The face of the closure may be provided with a representation of one of the jar rings surrounding the central display opening, as shown at 12, 190 and other descriptive matter may be printed on the closure, as shown in Fig. 2. However, all of this matter is applicable to the various brands of jar rings, and does not indicate the particular brand or variety enclosed by the container, the object being to overcome the necessity of using different containers for the various brands.

Attention is now directed to one of the cartons shown in Fig. 3, and particularly to the display of 110 the brand and other specific information on the square face of the carton. Specific matter of this kind has heretofore been printed on the large containers, thereby requiring the use of numerous difierent containers.

Fig. 1 shows how the twenty-four rectangular cartons are packed in rows, there being two horizontal rows of said cartons at the closure, with three cartons in each row. The meeting faces of these two rows are in a line extending across the center of the circular opening 10, so as to expose the upper portion of the middle carton in the lower row and the lower portion of the middle carton in the upper row.

These exposed portions of the two cartons are provided with different advertising and descriptive designations, associated with each other to clearly indicate the contents of the large container.

Furthermore, the diameter of the circular display opening 10 is approximately equal to the distance across the square face of one of the enclosed cartons, and there are two cartons at this opening so arranged that about one-half of the face of each carton is clearly exposed. As a consequence all of the essential specific descriptive matter is fully exposed, and the concealed portions of these two square cartons are securely confined by the material around the circular opening.

In this specific combination and arrangement of elements, the required strength is obtained by forming a circular display opening at the center of the paper closure, and by exposing portions of two square cartons which are firmly held by large areas of the closure below and above the display opening.

In addition to the strength resulting from the locations, shapes and relative positions of these elements, all of the essential descriptive matter is very attractively displayed, and the trouble and expense heretofore involved in the use of numerous different distinctive containers are entirely eliminated.

I claim:

In a display package for cartons of jar rings, a container made of paper including a closure hinged to the body of the container, said closure having a circular opening at its center, and cartons filling said container, each of said cartons having a square front face provided with descriptive matter identifying the contents of said container, the diameter of said square face being approximately equal to the diameter of said circular opening, there being two rows of said cartons at said closure with three cartons in each row, themeeting faces of said rows being in a line extending across the center of said circular display opening, so as to expose approximately one-half of the square faces of only the two middle cartons in said rows, both of said middle cartons being otherwise confined and concealed by the material around said central display opening, and the exposed portion of the face of each of said middle cartons having the descriptive matter corresponding to the concealed descriptive matter of the other middle carton so as to provide for substantially a complete display of all of the matter appearing on a face of one of the cartons.

EDWARD H. BOHLMANN. 

